Before becoming Director of Finance and Operations for Lake Bluff District 65, Jay Kahn served as Director of Fiscal Services for Round Lake Area Community Unit School District 116 and Assistant Business Manager for Oak Grove School District 68 in Green Oaks. He served an internship in Finance in Deerfield School District 109.

Before entering the field of school finance, Mr. Kahn had a career in business, having worked at companies including Hewitt Associates, PepsiCo, and Procter & Gamble.

Mr. Kahn studied School Business Administration at Northern Illinois University and holds an Illinois Chief School Business Official (CSBO) Endorsement. He earned an MBA-Finance degree with honors from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, where he was an Edmund J. James Scholar.

Mr. Kahn and his wife live in Deerfield and have a son in elementary school and a pre-school daughter.